00:00Mr. Speaker, if he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out.
00:04Mr. Speaker, he's not fixing any foundations, he's making everything worse.
00:10The whole House would have heard him refuse to repeat the Chancellor's pledge,
00:17a pledge as worthless as the manifesto promises that he's talking about.
00:22If he is fixing foundations, why is it that the PMI index shows that business confidence
00:27has crashed since the Budget?
00:30Mr. Speaker, we're fixing the foundations, we've got record investment into this country.
00:36She talks about tax rises. Mr. Speaker, two weeks ago she stood there and said that she
00:42wanted all the investment, all the benefits of the Budget, but she didn't know how she
00:47was going to pay for it. I noticed that having come here criticising the national insurance
00:52rises over and over again. On Monday, she admitted that she wouldn't reverse the position
00:57that was set out. Meanwhile, her science minister was saying he was going energetically to do
01:04the opposite. They really haven't got a clue what they're doing.
01:09Mr. Speaker, if he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out.
01:17Mr. Speaker, until then—
01:23I'll decide when there's more.
01:27Mr. Speaker, until then, I'm the one asking the questions. There's a petition out there,
01:302 million people asking him to go. He's the one who doesn't know how things work.
01:41It is not government that creates growth, Mr. Speaker, it is business. His employment
01:46secretary—I don't see her here—she wants more young people in work, but businesses
01:50say they are cutting jobs because of the Chancellor's Budget. His Deputy Prime Minister—she is
01:55not here—her Employment Rights Bill will stop businesses hiring. That's what they
01:59say. The CBI said on Monday that the dots of the government's policy don't join up.
02:07They're right, aren't they?
02:10Mr. Speaker, on Monday she said that she wouldn't reverse the increase in national insurance.
02:17Yesterday, on their legacy legislation—their predecessor—they couldn't decide what their
02:24position was. Today, they've launched a policy commission asking other people to give
02:31them some ideas for government, and she talks about a petition. We had a massive petition
02:37on 4 July in this country. We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to
02:47a party of government. They're hurtling in the opposite direction.
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